Things were simpler in the past. Authority figures told us what “our” gods wanted us to believe and how to demonstrate our beliefs. They established rules and the dire consequences of disobeying. They could even prompt those consequences to […]
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Bernard Miller
So now, the poor be damned! There was now one single model, based on individual indebtedness, promoted around the world as UN policy and supported by the World Bank, the IMF and multiple governments.
For as long as I can remember I have considered middle age to be fifteen years older than I am. When I was five, twenty was definitely middle-aged. At twenty, middle age clearly began at thirty-five and by the […]
Think old people can be troublesome? You don’t know the half of it! Why didn’t my mother warn me? It didn’t feel like it at the time but was it a stroke of luck for me that my […]
If homelessness of an individual or family is a tragedy, homelessness of millions of people must multiply that tragedy millionfold, mustn’t it? Here’s a recipe for disaster. Take a city of eight million people, destroy forty per cent of […]
